Assembly's Sheldon Silver earned $350G-$450G from law firm

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Jul. 3, 2013

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, speaks with reporters at the Capitol in Albany on June 21. Silver earned between $350,000 and $450,000 in 2012 from a powerful Manhattan law firm that specializes in public-injury law, disclosure forms released Wednesday show. (AP Photo/Tim Roske, file)

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For the first time in state history, lawmakers Wednesday released details about their outside incomes - and some earned big bucks away from the state Capitol.

The disclosures, required as part of a 2011 ethics law, revealed what had only been speculated about for decades: how much lawmakers pulled down from their side jobs as lawyers, Realtors or investors. They had to provide ranges of how much they made from private employment in 2012.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, earned between $350,000 and $450,000 in 2012 from a large Manhattan law firm that specializes in ...